harum-scarum

How To Use harum-scarum In A Sentence

• How are the 'improvident' -- 'harum-scarums' to live if you are not present to minister to their wants -- upon the best of security? The Story of the Foss River Ranch
• She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels. NEVERWHERE
• Favourite Gunther McBride set out to make every yard of the running under Richard Johnson, but his jumping was harum-scarum.
• dashing harum-scarum all over the place
• Once you get above chapter book level, it seems like almost all new fiction for kids is (or wants to be) thrilling, exciting, harum-scarum, suspenseful, non-stop, etc. Archive 2009-05-01
• She told me a harum-scarum tale of running through a forest in the middle of the stormy.
• Such encounters were relatively common in the harum-scarum chaos of an early solar system that teemed with veering planets and asteroids. The Loneliest Planet
• He took a vacation to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, with “an attractive companion,” and made another trip home, where my grandfather noticed what he called a “sweet reasonableness” interrupted only by a moment of high tension “due possibly to the three harum-scarum children who were visiting.” Into the Story
• Besides, had not her own cousin, -- though a remote and distant one to be sure, the black sheep, the harum-scarum, the ne'er-do-well, -- had not he come down out of that weird North country with a hundred thousand in yellow dust, to say nothing of a half-ownership in the hole from which it came? THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
• But total meeting has a few harum-scarum people forget transhipment of through cargo, the cold looked for them easily.